Robotics...

Advantages of Industrial Robots

Productivity

• Robots produce more accurate and high quality work – applications are performed with precision and high repeatability every time. This level of consistency can be hard to achieve any other way.

• Robots rarely make mistakes and are more precise than human workers – their measurements and movements of tools being utilized are more accurate.

• Robots have much smaller and versatile moving parts than people and they don’t have hands which tremble or shake, so they are very good under stressful conditions and situations

• Their abilities are very vast and great, and the amount of things that they can do are still growing

• They can produce a greater quantity in a short amount of time

• They can work at a constant speed with no breaks, sleep, days off or holiday time

• They can perform applications with more repeatability than humans

• They don’t get bored and can therefore do the same thing all day long that humans don’t want to do – When tasks are monotonous, workers tend to be careless, thereby increasing the probability of accidents and malfunctions of machines. Utilization of robots has eliminated problems associated with boredom in production.

• They can capture moments just too fast for the human eye to get, for example the Atlas detector in the LHC project can capture 600 000 frames per second while we can see about 60 frames per second

• Robots can also come in many different sizes depending on their job whereas a human is always the same shape (approximately)
  
   

Safety

• Robots can do jobs that may be harmful or dangerous to humans

• They can work in hazardous conditions, such as poor lighting, toxic chemicals or tight spaces, and can handle radioactive materials that might be involved, such as in hospitals or nuclear establishments, where direct exposure to human beings can be dangerous for their health

• They are capable of lifting heavy loads without injury or tiring

• Robots increase worker safety by preventing accidents since humans are not performing risky jobs

• They can go to places without air, in space, underwater etc.

• Space: e.g. many robotic probes have been sent throughout the solar system to never return back to Earth. I don’t think many people would be willing to do those types of jobs.
  
   

Savings

• Robots can save time by being able to produce a greater magnitude of products in a shorter time

• They also reduce the amount of wasted material used due to their accuracy

• Robots save companies money in the long run with quick RIOs (return on investment), fewer worker injuries (reducing or elimination worker’s comp), and with using less materials

• They cost less and less as more people are buying robots and more companies want to sell industrial robots

• They have pulled workers from repetitive, monotonous jobs and put them in better, more challenging ones.

• They have created new jobs for those who were one on production lines with programming.

• They allow companies to remain competitive, keeping jobs local

• They are user-friendly and intelligent

• Since there are no workers and only robots, they won’t have to pay wages, and even though the expenses of the robots are more than the wages the company would have payed, in the long run the money the robot makes will benefit the company